This book provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to evaluation research. The author illustrates the contribution both quantitative and qualitative methods can make to evaluation, and stresses the important part played by theory in the evaluation enterprise. more...

Alan Clarke explains the technologies that are available and how to use them from whiteboards and virtual learning environments to digital photographs, podcasts and e-portfolios. Each chapter is fully aligned with the new LLUK standards and includes teaching strategies, practical examples and case studies to show how these work in practice. more...

Old-fashioned vehicles, a policeman on a bike and now a 1957 telephone directory! What on earth was going on?.. As he walked out into the daylight his mind was in total confusion.... It was beginning to dawn on Brian that he had travelled back in time! But how could that happen? Questions crowd into his mind as Brian Wilberforce Parsons finds himself... more...

A free working holiday to Bermuda seems too good an opportunity for part-time cleaner Lisa to resist. However, her employer, Sir Ralph Higgins, an international banker, gets duped into smuggling drugs and is arrested at Bermuda International Airport. Lisa's troubles are only just beginning and it isnt turning out to be the sunshine holiday... more...

Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition—sending people captured in the “war on terror” to nations long counted among the world’s worst human rights violators—hid... more...